APrf Geraldine Bloustien

APrf Geraldine Bloustien

School of Communication, Media and Journalism

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien has changed her status at the University to be an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Hawke Research Institute from January 1st 2010 in order to focus on her research, publications and her doctoral students. Former Deputy Director and Research Fellow of the Hawke Institute, she is a key reseacher in the Institute. She teaches and supervises Hons and PhD students across cross-disciplinary boundaries of media theory and practice. Her research areas include youth studies, video production, theories and practices in documentary film, television and film theories, ethnographic methodologies, gender and representation and popular music and culture to contemporary theories and practices of healing. Her work more recently particularly focusses on how new technologies and new forms of media affect invdividuals and communities as learners and acquirers of knowledge. In what ways do they influence the power structures that underpin what is deemed appropriate cultural knowledge?

She is a founding member of the Australian Research Council's National Cultural Research Network.

Cultural identities and representation;Popular music and youth cultures; Health literacy and complementary/ traditional health practices; Film and Media Studies,2005 ATN network challenge (with partners in all 5 Australian University of Technology Networks). Community networks communication as a source of sustainability in global Australia. $50,000,2004 ARC The Cultural Research Network, RN0459928, $500,000,2003-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP0345917, Playing for Life: the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as strategic pathways to agency, employment and socio-economic inclusion. $370,000,,2004-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, International Linkage Fellowship, LX0560412 Fellowship for on-site German-Australian collaboration to research the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as pathways to socio-economic inclusion. $81,000,UNDER DEVELOPMENT,Unsettling Histories: using affective strategies to reconcile contested representations of collective memory in public spaces.Investigators: A/Prof Andrea Witcomb, A/Prof Geraldine Frances Bloustien, Prof Davinder Pal Ahluwalia, Prof Hartmut HaeussermannA study of the impact of new technologies and immersive and affective techniques in the ways museum document and represent contested histories.

Year Citation
2016 Bloustien, G., & Wood, D. (2016). Visualising disability and activism in Second Life. Current sociology, 64(1), 101-121.
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2013 Bloustien, G. F., & Wood, D. (2013). Face, authenticity, transformations and aesthetics in Second Life. Body & society, 19(1), 52-81.
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2010 Bloustien, G. F. (2010). Hartley, John, the uses of digital literacy. MIA: children, young people, sexuality and the media, 135, 166-167.
2010 Bloustien, G. (2010). The uses of digital literacy [book review]. Media International Australia, 135(1), 166-167.
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2010 Christie, E., & Bloustien, G. (2010). I-cyborg : disability, affect and public pedagogy. Discourse, 31(4), 483-498.
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2008 Green, L., Bloustien, G. F., & Balnaves, M. (2008). 'We are next!: Listening to Jewish voices in a multicultural country'. M/C journal, 11(5), 1-8.
2007 Bloustien, G. F. (2007). 'Wigging people out': youth music practice and mediated communities. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 17(6), 446-462.
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2006 Semple, S., Hotham, E., Rao, D., Martin, K., Smith, C., & Bloustien, G. (2006). Community pharmacists in Australia: barriers to information provision on complementary and alternative medicines. Pharmacy World & Science, 28(6), 366-373.
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2005 Smith, C. A., Martin, K. L., Hotham, E. D., Semple, S. J., Bloustien, G. F., & Rao, D. (2005). Naturopaths practice behaviour : provision and access to information on complementary and alternative medicines. BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 5(1).
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2003 Bloustien, G. F. (2003). Envisioning ethnography : exploring the meanings of the visual in research. Social analysis (Adelaide).
2003 Bloustien, G. F., & Peters, M. P. (2003). Playing for life : new approaches to researching youth and their music practices. Youth Studies Australia.
2003 Bloustien, G. F., & Baker, S. L. (2003). On not talking to strangers: researching the micro worlds of girls through visual auto-ethnographic practices. Social Analysis, 47(3).
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2003 Bloustien, G. (2003). Currency companion to music and dance in Australia [Book Review ]. Context: journal of music research, 26, 67-69.
2002 Bloustien, G. F. (2002). Fans with a lot at stake: Serious play and mimetic excess in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
1999 Bloustien, G. F. (1999). The consequences of being a gift. Australian Journal of Anthropology.

Year Citation
2016 Bloustien, G. (2016). "God is a DJ": girls, music, performance, and negotiating space. In C. Mitchell, & C. Rentschler (Eds.), Source details - Title: Girlhood and the politics of place (pp. 228-243). US: Berghahn Books.
2012 Bloustien, G. (2012). Play, affect and participatory video as a reflexive research strategy. In E. J. Milne, C. Mitchell, & N. Lange (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of participatory video (pp. 115-130). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
2010 Bloustien, G. F. (2010). Music and the creative knowledge economy. In D. Scott (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Ashgate research companion to popular musicology (pp. 449-466). UK: Ashgate Publishing.
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2010 Bloustien, G. F. (2010). And the rest is silence: silence and death as motifs in Buffy the vampire slayer. In P. Attinello (Ed.), Source details - Title: Music, sound, and silence in Buffy the vampire slayer (pp. 91-110). UK: Ashgate.
2009 Bloustien, G. F. (2009). Legitimacy, governance and consensus: a candid conversation with Graham Freudenberg. In G. Bloustien, B. Comber, & A. MacKinnon (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. 30-44). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2009 Bloustien, G., Mackinnon, A., & Comber, B. (2009). Introduction - The Hawke legacy. In G. Bloustien, B. Combe, & A. Mackinnon (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. viii-xvii). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2008 Bloustien, G., Luckman, S., & Peters, M. (2008). Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises: reflections on the synergies of music in the creative knowledge economy. In Source details - Title: Sonic synergies: music, technology, community, identity (pp. xxi-xxviii). UK: Ashgate Publishing.
2008 Bloustien, G. F. (2008). Reflections of a Jewish childhood during Christmas. In Source details - Title: Christmas, ideology and popular culture (pp. 188-195). UK: Edinburgh University Press.
2008 Bloustien, G. (2008). Creating agency: Introduction to part 3. In G. Bloustien, M. Peters, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity (pp. 141-143). UK: Ashgate Publishing.
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2008 Bloustien, G. (2008). Auto video ethnography and girl culture. In C. A. Mitchell, & J. Reid-Walsh (Eds.), Source details - Title: Girl culture: an encyclopedia (Vol. 2, pp. 598-601). Westport, USA: Greenwood Press.
2006 Bloustien, G., & Israel, M. (2006). Crime and the media. In A. Goldsmith, M. Israel, & K. Daly (Eds.), Source details - Title: Crime and Justice: An Australian Textbook in Criminology (3 ed., pp. 45-63). Australia: Lawbook Co.
2006 Bloustien, G. (2006). Crime and media. In A. Goldsmith, M. Israel, & K. Daly (Eds.), Source details - Title: Crime and justice: a guide to criminology (pp. 45-63). New South Wales, Australia: Thomson Lawbook Co.
2004 Bloustien, G. F. (2004). Still picking children from the trees? Reimagining Woodstock in the twenty-first-century Australia. In A. Bennett (Ed.), Source details - Title: Remembering Woodstock (pp. 127-143). UK: Routledge.
2004 Bloustien, G. F. (2004). Buffy night at the seven stars : a 'subcultural' happening at the 'glocal' level. In Source details - Title: After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Culture (pp. 148-161). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
2002 Bloustien, G. F. (2002). Ceci N'est pas une jeune fille : videocams, representation and 'othering' in the world of teenage girls. In Source details - Title: Hop on pop : the politics and pleasures of popular culture (pp. 162-186). Durham, London: Duke University Press.
2002 Bloustien, G., & Israel, M. (2002). Crime and the media. In Source details - Title: Crime and Justice: An Australian Textbook in Criminology (2 ed., pp. 39-60). Australia: Lawbook Co.
2001 Bloustien, G. F. (2001). Far from sugar and spice : teenage girls, embodiment and representation. In B. Baron, & H. Kotthoff (Eds.), Source details - Title: Gender in Interaction : perspectives on feminity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse (pp. 99-135). Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub Co.
1999 Bloustien, G. F. (1999). On not dancing like a 'try hard'. In G. Bloustien (Ed.), Source details - Title: Musical Visions (pp. 8-20). South Australia: Wakefield Press.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2020 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Alexis Kim Johnson

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